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Albert Schweitzer - Qoute

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:06:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Humans, especially the imbeciles, are worse than any other animal on this planet.
Animals follow their instincts, imbeciles have no instincts at all; they are obnoxious and greedy.

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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.: Albert Schweitzer
French philosopher & physician (1875 - 1965)

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Qoute - Thomas Edison

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:54:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: An addition to the Americans getting dumber clip.

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"Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think."
— Thomas Edison

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Americans Getting Dumber

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:34:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Not only Americans are getting dumber. In Europe the same process started also. Mainly evoked by brainwashing media like tv.
About seven years ago somebody wrote on the Internet: "there will come a time where humanty will be split in on-liners and off-liners.
The on-liners will have all the knowledge, the off-liners non.
I think it's already happening.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?

Joining the circle of curmudgeons this season is Eric G. Wilson, whose “Against Happiness” warns that the “American obsession with happiness” could “well lead to a sudden extinction of the creative impulse, that could result in an extermination as horrible as those foreshadowed by global warming and environmental crisis and nuclear proliferation.”

But now, Ms. Jacoby said, something different is happening: anti-intellectualism (the attitude that “too much learning can be a dangerous thing”) and anti-rationalism (“the idea that there is no such things as evidence or fact, just opinion”) have fused in a particularly insidious way.

Not only are citizens ignorant about essential scientific, civic and cultural knowledge, she said, but they also don’t think it matters.

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